PEORIA -- Parker Stanfield and Kyle Rank teamed up again, one firing shots, the other producing blanks to help the Peoria Rivermen sweep a three-game weekend series Sunday from the Mississippi Surge.

Stanfield scored two more goals on nine more shots while Rank posted his second straight shutout over Mississippi in an easy 4-0 decision before 2,969 at Carver Arena.

Peoria earned points in its 12th straight home game and jumped from fifth place in the SPHL, over the Mississippi RiverKings, and into a third-place tie with Huntsville.

Stanfield finished the weekend with 4 goals and 26 shots. Mississippi managed just 69 shots as a team for the three games combined.

"(Rivermen head coach) Jean-Guy Trudel told me to be more selfish and shoot," Stanfield said, grinning. "I like to move the puck, pass it, help my linemates. But it is fun to score, too.

"Mississippi looked like it really didn't want to be here. We frustrated them, played our strong, steady game all weekend."

The Rivermen out-scored Mississippi 11-1 over the three games. It was the seventh straight loss for Mississippi, which holds the SPHL's final playoff berth and will likely make the postseason by default, as they are chased by Fayetteville (7 straight losses) and Bloomington (six losses in last eight games).

Peoria winger Robert Vanwynsberghe made it 1-0 at 8:31 of the first period on a bad goal when, parked near the left endline, he produced a backhanded swat of the puck that banked in through goaltender Dan Clarke's skates.

The Rivermen took a 2-0 lead at 15:55 when team goalscoring leader Garrett Vermeersch picked up a loose puck behind the net, sent out toward the crease, and watched as it banked in off the back of Clarke's pads.

The Rivermen rolled to 3-0 on a two-on-one break at 2:40 of the second period. Stanfield skated down the right side and deposited the puck gently into the net off a perfect crossing feed from Vermeersch, who threaded it through Mississippi defenseman Bill Baker.

Peoria went up 4-0 at 4:44 when Stanfield took a lob pass from Vermeersch in the neutral zone and raced in on a breakaway, burying the puck inside the right post.

Mississippi yanked Clarke and sent in Mathieu Dugas after that.

The Rivermen had chances to pile up more, but did not convert on any of six power plays. They didn't need it, as Rank made 21 saves to sail to his ongoing SPHL single-season record eighth shutout.

The veteran goaltender kept his shutout intact 5:12 into the final period with a terrific save when he slid post-to-post and thrust out his right pad to kick away Brett Vandehogen's one-timer on a two-on-one break.

"We came into the weekend with the mindset that we wanted to sweep that team, and that's what we did," Rivermen captain Cole Ruwe said. "We played a strong, disciplined game and we won those games, and we deserved to."